Friday, May 27, 2016

Hi!

12 comments:

As other have mentioned, taking time off in the summer can be risky even for tenured, as that's when some seriously poor policies (deliberately?) get brought up. For this reason, I miss CM during its breaks. It's always the non-teaching side of things that affects how well I sleep.

However, the RGM surely deserves some time off, and the summer, well, heck, it's the summer.

One would need to be an utter philistine to not appreciate the need for a break now and again.

There's no hiatus. There isn't enough work for me to take a break from it. As I've noted a couple of times, when stuff comes in I'll put it up. It's entirely up to the readers. Even the old flashbacks are almost always sent in by someone...Cal mostly. I like that the site is here and happy to do whatever to make sure stuff that comes in gets up okay and that the occasional spam gets taken care of. Enjoy.

As usual, Crystal's approach seems to me to be working. If enough of us are online and stressing about summer teaching (or, as EC1 points out, administrative sneakiness), there will be presumably be new posts, or at least conversation on old ones. If no one is sending in posts/posting comments, there will be a hiatus.

And if Crystal decides at some point to check the submission box less often than once a day (or whatever the current interval is), that's up to her.

As usual, the obvious solution for anyone who thinks the page needs some new material is to send some in (and then exercise a modicum of patience, knowing it will appear in good time).

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College Misery was a dysfunctional group blog where professors got the chance to release some of the frustration that built up while tending to student snowflakes, helicopter parents, money mad Deans, envious colleagues, and churlish chairpeople.

Our parent site, Rate Your Students, started in 2005, and we continued that mission beginning in 2010. Ben at Academic Water Torture and Kimmie at The Apoplectic Mizery Maker both ran support blogs during periods when this blog had died.